Hours before David Olney passed away onstage in January 2020, he listened for the first time to the final mix of Whispers and Sighs, his forthcoming album with emerging artist Anana Kaye. His response? “Fuck, yeah! This is good!” That […]
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Cruz Contreras is lean and fit at the front end of his 40s, with a tan deepened by playing festivals throughout the American West for much of the summer. His salt-and-pepper hair flops down in locks when he stomps the […]
With his debut album, indie country artist Jason Wickens is attempting something that has proven a tricky for many a talent before him: launching a career as a singer/songwriter from Montana. Living 4,423 collective miles from Nashville, Los Angeles, and […]
Veteran singer-songwriter A.J. Croce may be the scion of the late Jim Croce, but you’d be hard-pressed to know it by comparing their music. The elder Croce hung a Gibson acoustic around his neck and injected “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” […]
By Skip Anderson Caleb Caudle is a rising star. It’s great, he says, that the TV show Nashville included one of his songs in an episode and Rolling Stone tapped him as an “Artist You Need to Know.” But, he […]
By Skip Anderson Many of the songs Parker Millsap writes feel older than the man who wrote them — timeless, in a way, and unabashedly contemporary in another. Millsap, 23, draws upon blues and country music as much as he […]
by Skip Anderson Thirty-five years ago, Justin Townes Earle was born to Americana royalty and given the middle name of the man who arguably is the genre’s founding father. Today, the younger Earle continues to follow in the footsteps of […]
NIGHT 1 of 5 Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016 On any given night, Nashville can an embarrassment of riches when it comes to entertainment options. And this week AmericanaFest compounds that “problem” for fans of roots-rooted music. Take opening night for […]
Margo Price’s wedding ring has a crack in it. Not the ring itself, but the diamond in its setting. The hairline flaw limited the amount of money she could borrow against it at a pawnshop, but she used that money […]
In the weeks ahead of the release of her debut country solo album, Leigh Nash wondered how fans of Sixpence None the Richer — the quasi-Christian band she fronts — would receive it. After all, she’s best known as the […]
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